Safety garment-hook.



N0. 637,|l4. Patented Nov. I4, I899.

A. E. HEWITT. 3

SAFETY GARMENT HOOK. (Applied-ion filed 1m. 15. was. 040 Model.)

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN E. HEWITT, OF SHELTON, CONNECTICUT.

SAFETY GARMENT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,114, dated November 14, 1899.

Application filed March 15, 1895.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALVIN E. HEWITT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shelton, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Garment-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the class of garment-hooks known as safety or guarded hooks, and has for its object to provide a construction of hook which may be made of the shortest possible length of wire and with the smallest number of operations upon the blank, thereby reducing the cost of construction, both in respect to material used and first cost of machinery and cost of operating machinery, and which, furthermore, shall avoid the serious objections to this class of hooks as heretofore made, the essential feature of novelty in my improved book being that the end of the blank from which the guard is formed is brought through to the back of the hook and has formed thereon a flattened head, which presents a perfectly smooth surface on the back and also renders it impossible for the point to spring up between the sides of the hook and engage the material of a garment either in hooking or unhooking.

With these ends in view I have devised the novel safety or guarded hook of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, numbers being used to designate the several parts.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view, of my novel hook.

1 denotes the loop of the hook, consisting of a back 5 and front 6; 2, the attachingeyes, and 3 the guard, which is formed from the end of a strand lying between the sides of the back. The loop is made by doubling the blank upon itself in the usual manner,

' one strand of the blank, which I have indicated by 7, being longer than the other, and then bending it so that the back and front of the loop are substantially parallel with Serial No. 541,849. (No model.)

between the two strands on the back of the loop which is wide enough to receive the strand 7, from which the guard is formed, as

clearly shown in Fig. 1. One side of the hook is completed by curving the end of the blank outward and then around upon itself to form the eye. .The other eye is formed from the strand 7 of the blank, which after forming v the eye is curved upward and then downward to form the guard, the end of this strand of the blank being passed through between the two sides of the hook and flattened to form a head, as at 4, this flattening of the end of the long strand of the blank being so performed as to leave the hook perfectly smooth on the under side, but at the same time rendering it impossible for the end of the guard to pass up between the sides of the back and into a position where it would be possible for the material of the garment to catch upon it or to get under the guard and become locked there, which is the most serious objection found to other hooks of this class now upon the market.

It should be noted that in my novel hook the flattening or swaging of the end of the wire in a forward direction insures the forming of laterally-projecting edges which contact with the outer face of the back, but which edges, being substantially thin, will not present any surface which could engage with the material of a garment, and that the extending of the swaged head forwardly forms an elongated surface to abut against the back, which elongated contacting surface prevents any tendency of the edges of the head breaking and the guard passing through the back by reason of such breaking. In addition to this it is clear that there is no rough surface projecting in any direction and that the hook and guard are formed from the shortest possible length of wire, which is in itself an important saving in the cost of production, and, furthermore, that the shape of the hook is such as to require the least number of bends and smallest amount of manipulation, which greatly simplifies the machinery for producing the hook and constitutes in itself an important saving in the cost of production.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A safety-hook for garments having a guard the end of which is brought through to the back and has at its end a head swaged to a substantially thin edge, said head extending forwardly and laterally only and having its outer face lying in substantially the plane of the back to form a smooth outer surface, said head being prevented from passing through the back by its inner contact-surface.

2. A safety-hook for garments having a guard the end of which is brought through the back and has at its end a head swaged to a substantially thin edge, said head being elongated and extending forwardly and laterally only, the edges of the inner face thereof normally contacting against the outer face of the back, forming an elongated contacting surface, the outer face of said head lying in substantially the plane of the back, to form a smooth outer surface, said head being prevented from passing through the back by said contacting edges.

3. A garment-hook consisting of the back 5, the loop 1, the attaching-eyes 2, the strand 7 between the side pieces of the back, the guard 3 on said strand 7 between the loop and back, and the head 4 on the end of said guard, said head being swaged to asubstantially thin edge and extended forwardly and laterally only, its outer face lying in substantially the plane of the back to form a smooth outer surface, said head being prevented from passing through the back by its inner contacting surfaces.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALVIN E. HEWITT.

Witnesses:

S. H. LESSY, MERRITT CLARK. 

